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Fentanyl, oxycodone and other drugs worth around $350,000 have been seized in a massive drug trafficking operation bust in Bristol County after a year-long investigation led by a state police task force with help from multiple other agencies.

New Bedford remains one of only two communities in Massachusetts designated as “red” on the Commonwealth’s color-coded map of COVID-19 cases. In the latest data released by the state department of public health on Thursday, New Bedford and Lawrence are the only communities still listed as “red,” which for cities their size means 10 or more average daily cases per 100,000 people and a positive test

Police say a trooper stopped an uninsured and unregistered VW Jetta with heavily-tinted windows on the ramp from I-84 to I-90.

The Massachusetts utility has admitted federal liability in the 2018 gas explosions that rocked the Merrimac Valley.

Mayor Jon Mitchell is not joining Boston area mayors in supporting a bill that would allow illegal immigrants in Massachusetts to obtain a driver’s license.

A man wanted for kidnapping and violently raping a woman in New Bedford last year has been added to the Massachusetts State Police Most Wanted list.

Warren pledged to fight back against "a rigged system" that's hurting the middle class.

LAWRENCE, Mass. (AP) _ Hotplates are being distributed to residents who have been left without gas service more than a week after gas explosions and fires rocked the Merrimack Valley. The Boston Globe reports that members of the Massachusetts National Guard started giving out thousands of hotplates to residents Saturday morning as part of a massive relief effort in Lawrence, Andover and North Ando

Residents in Lawrence, Andover, and North Andover have joined a class action lawsuit against the company that supplies natural gas to those communities.

The pressure in the natural gas pipelines prior to a series of explosions and fires in Massachusetts last week was 12 times higher than it should have been.